When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the images spread quickly: candlelight vigils across the country. Young men in polos and cross necklaces stood shoulder to shoulder, heads bowed. People carried signs with messages like “We are all Charlie.”
To many in the press, Kirk was a partisan provocateur, a combative media personality. But the mourning revealed something harder to dismiss. It showed that for a generation of young men—myself included—he was more than a pundit. He had become a figure to reckon with. For Christians in particular, he was an example of what it looks like to hold unpopular social views with conviction and to speak openly about saving faith in Jesus Christ.
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